Magpies Forever
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I've been pondering tonight whilst watching the Manly- Eels game WT situation and I can see no alternative to immediately re-sign Potter for 1 more year. No more than that and give him a chance to gather the wreckage of this imploded season into 2015.
t will be much, much too late to wait until seasons end to judge Potter and the team, if it goes to then we have lost any chance to recruit on the remaining talent on the out of contract meat market.
With the loss of Anasta and Fulton through injury and then retirement and probably Moltzen too with his recurrent knee difficulties WT lack of experienced NRL footballers is laughable if not so serious. There is no-one to back up Farah and/or provide an alternate leadership role when he is out of sorts. (I dont think Farah has been totally there since his mum died). Our remaining older players- Halatau, Galloway, Richards, Blair and Lawrence are not leaders (or have not shown it to date), and the younger ones have not yet thrown up a leader - possibly Brooks but it is too soon to throw that on his shoulders.
We have to try to buy someone of the available market that can provide soem laternate leadership and be experienced in a position we need- centre or strike backrow. Damned if I know who though. Zerotackle has an item Farah has approached WT management to sign Willie Mason- on no accounts should that be coutanced either. Farah cannot be allowed to run the club playing roster. That is the coaches call.
As an aside I would not support the option of immediately namking either Kidwell or Payten. Their disloyalty should not be rewarded.
What a crap situation we have put ourselves in. Didnt anyone think of the looming recruitment problem?????????
t will be much, much too late to wait until seasons end to judge Potter and the team, if it goes to then we have lost any chance to recruit on the remaining talent on the out of contract meat market.
With the loss of Anasta and Fulton through injury and then retirement and probably Moltzen too with his recurrent knee difficulties WT lack of experienced NRL footballers is laughable if not so serious. There is no-one to back up Farah and/or provide an alternate leadership role when he is out of sorts. (I dont think Farah has been totally there since his mum died). Our remaining older players- Halatau, Galloway, Richards, Blair and Lawrence are not leaders (or have not shown it to date), and the younger ones have not yet thrown up a leader - possibly Brooks but it is too soon to throw that on his shoulders.
We have to try to buy someone of the available market that can provide soem laternate leadership and be experienced in a position we need- centre or strike backrow. Damned if I know who though. Zerotackle has an item Farah has approached WT management to sign Willie Mason- on no accounts should that be coutanced either. Farah cannot be allowed to run the club playing roster. That is the coaches call.
As an aside I would not support the option of immediately namking either Kidwell or Payten. Their disloyalty should not be rewarded.
What a crap situation we have put ourselves in. Didnt anyone think of the looming recruitment problem?????????
